American Forests back issues from September 2002:
Letters.
Sep 22, 2002 ... REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11 AMERICAN FORESTS: I just recently donated money to plant a tree for my son Carl, one of the firefighters killed on Sept. 11th. I knew nothing about this until I went into the Eddie Bauer store on a trip to Penn. I will tell all the families I know about ...
Trees in black & white: simple truths are sometimes the hardest, and the woods are suffering while we learn. (Editorial).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Most of us learn the world is not black and white before we're old enough to make decisions affected by that simple truth. Yet there's another simple truth a lot of us have missed: Forests aren't black and white either. That point seems to be missing in much of the debate over ...
Trees that ease learning: when students open their school books this autumn, here's why you'll want greenery nearby. (Perspectives).
Sep 22, 2002; ... When the weather gets warm, students take to the outdoors for class. It's one reason the students in Lynn Speed's class at Wisconsin's Cedarburg High School raised an unprecedented $700 for AMERICAN FORESTS' "A Tree for Every Child" program. In addition to having their money plant trees in ...
News from the world of trees. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002; ... TREES TAKE CENTER FIELD Sunday, September 8, was a perfect day for baseball. As a breeze wafted the smell of peanuts and hot dogs onto the field and the grounds crew prepared for the game against the Detroit Tigers, the Yankees took the field ... to plant a tree. ...
Marching to a different beat. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... A California company is drumming up support for the environment, one dollar at a time. Drum Workshop, which produces drums and drum accessories at its Oxnard headquarters outside Los Angeles, will donate $1 to AMERICAN FORESTS for each drum it sells. The company, which annually ...
Song and sprawl. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Yellowstone National Park is one of the most famous of America's protected areas, providing crucial habitat to many wildlife species. But recent research suggests the lands surrounding the park may be even more important. In a study published in the August issue of the journal ...
Saluting Maryland's fallen champ.
Sep 22, 2002 ... At nearly 100 feet tall, the Wye Oak, the long-standing national champion white oak and Maryland's state tree, seemed to fill the skyline. Its gnarled trunk stretched upward, reaching with massive limbs to cradle a crown spread of nearly 120 feet. A wooden fence surrounded it, defining the ...
Young Russian artists draw trees for tigers.
Sep 22, 2002 ... If you drew a wild animal with which you shared a habitat, what would it be: a deer, a raccoon, maybe a bear? In Russia's Far East, that animal is the endangered Siberian tiger, and 61 elementary students drew pictures of the big cats recently as part of AMERICAN FORESTS' campaign to ...
Ohio's Division of Forestry. (Meet Our Field Reps).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Ronald G. Abraham is our field rep for the Great Lakes region. Ron recently retired as state forester and chief of Ohio's Division of Forestry, after 13 years of service. Prior to serving as chief, Ron worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 27 ...
NCUFC and a member of the Forest History Society. (Meet Our Field Reps).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Representing AMERICAN FORESTS in North Carolina is Guy Meilleur a practicing and consulting arborist who has managed trees since 1965. Guy is a graduate student in plant pathology and agricultural Extension education at North ...
Blue Ridge Community College. (Meet Our Field Reps).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Joseph Murray has joined AMERICAN FORESTS as field rep for Virginia. He is assistant professor of biology, arboretum director, and arboriculture program director for the Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave, ...
New England Environmental Policy Center. (Meet Our Field Reps).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Carl H. Reidel is our field representative for the New England region. He is vice president of the New England Environmental Policy Center; The Daniel Clarke Sanders professor emeritus of environmental policy, and professor emeritus of natural resources and public administration at the ...
Willamette National Forest supervisor. (Meet Our Field Reps).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Zane G. Smith Jr. has represented AMERICAN FORESTS in the Northwest since 1988. Zane's 34-year career with the U.S. Forest Service included assignments as the Willamette National Forest supervisor in Eugene, Oregon; national director of recreation ...
KCI Technologies, Inc. (Meet Our Field Reps).
Sep 22, 2002 ... David A. Zeitlin is our Maryland field representative. David is a planner and urban forester for KCI Technologies, Inc. and is enrolled in the geography and environmental planning program at Towson University. He develops GIS applications for the ...
Monks and kids plant in Cambodia. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... As Cambodia rebuilds after decades of devastating warfare, a key task will be environmental restoration. As one part of that effort, AMERICAN FORESTS is helping with a tree-planting project that counts schoolchildren and Buddhist monks among its dedicated volunteers. Using a ...
Sequoias threatened. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... A runaway campfire came dangerously close to some of the country's oldest treasures this summer. The fire, near Giant Sequoia National Monument, started in July and grew to 57,000 acres in just a few days. Campfires weren't banned in the area, but extreme drought heightened the fire danger ...
IGA customers plant groves. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... For two weeks this spring, citizens from across the nation visited local IGA grocery stores to donate dollars to AMERICAN FORESTS' Patriot Trees for America campaign. Part of IGA's Hometown Green program, which focuses on ways communities can give back to the environment, the campaign ...
October Hill plants for tigers. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... AMERICAN FORESTS' Trees for Tigers campaign got a boost recently with a $10,000 donation from the October Hill Foundation in Connecticut. The money will be used to plant Korean pine, a native species that produces nuts eaten by tiger prey in the forests of the Russian Far East. The nuts ...
Washington outlook.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Senate Majority Leader Tom Doschle (SD) put Congress, the Administration, the forest industry, and environmental groups in a dither in July when he inserted en amendment into an emergency supplemental appropriations hill. His amendment recognized the high risk of wildfire posed by ...
3 states' new Liberty. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Liberty, independence, and democracy are weighty ideals for a 2-foot sapling to embody but citizens of Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; and Newport, Rhode Island, this summer honored tiny trees with a celebrated lineage and a personal connection to those cities. The tulip poplars, ...
New pest threatens ash trees. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Homeowners will soon need a notebook just to remember all the pests threatening their trees. One of the newest, the emerald ash borer, hails from Asia and has been found in five heavily populated counties in southeast Michigan, AP reports. In response, the state Agriculture ...
Making the most of wasted wood. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... AMERICAN FORESTS will help Baltimore develop a plan to reuse inner city wood waste while creating new jobs and reforesting the urban landscape, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Forest Service's Northeast Area. The Inner City Project grant awarded to AMERICAN FORESTS' Urban/Rural Initiative ...
Colorado's rainforest. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002; ... When most people think of Colorado, they think of a dry mountainscape covered by snow in the winter and heat in the summer. But two researchers have found that 64 million years ago, the area may have actually been a tropical rainforest. In an article in the June 28th issue of ...
Big D stands for trees. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Dallas is known across America for barbecue, 10-gallon hats, and the Cowboys. But the Big D is gaining recognition as the home of one of the nation's most important urban tree farms. The Dallas Trees and Parks Foundation, with assistance from local energy company TXU, planted ...
Disney's Dreaming Tree. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Walt Disney's "Dreaming Tree" has been nominated to the National Register of Historic Trees by G. Kaye Malins of Marceline, Missouri. The towering cottonwood stands beside a small spring where young Walt and his sister Ruth played as children. Disney spent hours in the tree's ...
Sweet-smelling forest threat. (Clippings).
Sep 22, 2002; ... As large-scale agriculture shifts west and portions of the northeastern United States return to woods, forest recovery and species diversity are being challenged by a sweet-smelling but aggressive adversary, honeysuckle. Three Asian species, L. maackii, L. tatarica, and L ....
Quercus quandary; as beetles kill millions of trees, a debate rages in the Ozarks: replenish red oaks or leave them alone?
Sep 22, 2002; ... A million acres of dead trees, and more dying. That's a conservative estimate of the damage (lone to date by a particular beetle, the red oak borer, throughout the Ozark highlands forest region of Arkansas and Missouri. It's a plague of biblical proportions, but this pestilence ...
Once again, a land of eagles: once bordering on extinction, our national symbol is making a soaring comeback in forests nationwide.
Sep 22, 2002; ... In the aftermath of September 11, national symbols took on a whole new meaning. Flags sprouted from car windows, strip malls, and politicians' lapels. Americans sang the national anthem and "God Bless America" with fervor, and an American bald eagle gilded into Yankee Stadium before Game 3 ...
Hogans of hope: in Arizona, a project to build traditional Navajo housing helps the community as it heals the forest.
Sep 22, 2002; ... Mae Franklin's office is a traditional Navajo hogan. Through the open door, she can gaze across the Little Colorado River gorge toward the Painted Desert, Canyon de Chelly, and Sisnaajini, the sacred Navajo mountain of the east. Her one-room octagonal building is a good place to work, says ...
Reviving the Bitterroot: this Montana planting project shows that people and trees are equally resilient after the catastrophic wildfires of 2000. (Communities).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Look, here's a ponderosa pine seedling growing on its own, Steve Kamps says. Here's another one, calls Jon Hayes. Both are foresters for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC). We were four adults acting like children on a scavenger hunt, searching ...
The popular pin oak. (In Profile).
Sep 22, 2002; ... The native pin oak (Quercus palustris) suffers a bit from overexposure, much like an actor when he or she becomes a star and reaches celebrity status. People will either love you or hate you, but there are few emotions in between. The pin oak's overexposure comes because, for ...
The trees with soul. (Highlighting Historic Trees).
Sep 22, 2002; ... We all know the story of the poor boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, who moved with his parents to Memphis, Tennessee. The teenager loved music, especially that which sprang from the working classes--Gospel traditions as well as the black rhythm and blues that was finding its zenith on Beale ...
Steely nature: using iron-willed concentration, a Washington, DC, sculptor immortalizes local trees with national acclaim. (Earth Keepers).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Even after being felled by weather, disease, or old age, our nation's famous and historic trees live on in the minds of many Americans. Ira Bloom wants to make sure those memories live on forever. Since discovering AMERICAN FORESTS' Historic Tree Nursery eight years ago, the Washington, ...